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Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.JOB DESCRIPTION:\n\nJob Description\nMeet Lingo, a new biosensing technology that provides users a window into their body. Lingo tracks key biomarkers such as glucose, ketones, and lactate to help people make better decisions about their health and nutrition. Biowearable technology will digitize, decentralize and democratize healthcare, enabling consumers to take control of their own health.\nAt Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:\nCareer development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.\nEmployees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year\nAn excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution\nTuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.\nA company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.\nA company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.\nTHE OPPORTUNITY\nThis Senior Systems Engineer position works onsite in our Alameda, CA location for Lingo.\nWe are seeking a Systems Engineer to lead design and development efforts across our cloud, and mobile platforms within a regulated medical device environment. This role is based in Alameda, CA, and plays a critical role in ensuring product quality, regulatory compliance, and scalable delivery.\nWhat You’ll Work On\nDefine and support software system architecture, safety classification, and system design to enable compliant, high-quality product development.\nCreate and maintain interface control documentation to ensure robust integration between hardware, and data systems.\nLead risk management activities, identifying hazards, defining mitigations, and ensuring traceability throughout design and development.\nPartner with QA/RA to maintain compliance with relevant standards, including FDA 21 CFR 820.30, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 60601, and IEC 62304.\nSupport verification and validation (V&V) processes which includes planning, execution, and documenting system tests to confirm requirements are met.\nFacilitate design reviews, coordinate multidisciplinary technical decisions, and champion systems thinking in everyday engineering.\nMaintain documentation for design history files (DHFs) and ensure full requirements traceability across the product lifecycle.\nSupport defect analysis and disposition while ensuring alignment with safety and risk management processes.\nSupport audits, regulatory submissions, SDLC process definition, non-product software validation, configuration management, and change control activities for software systems.\nRequired Qualifications\n8+ years of experience in systems engineering for regulated environments, ideally in medical devices or software as a medical device.\nStrong technical breadth across software, IoT systems, with the ability to communicate effectively across disciplines.\nHands-on experience with requirements definition/management tools (Jama, ALM, DOORS, Polarion, Ketryx, or similar) and interface control documentation.\nHands-on experience with requirements definition/management tools (Jama, Ketryx, or similar) and interface control documentation.\nKnowledge of core regulatory and quality standards for medical devices (FDA 21 CFR 820, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 62304, IEC 60601).\nFamiliarity with risk management best practices for medical devices and maintaining hazard analysis/FMEA documentation.\nDemonstrated systems thinking skills, understanding how individual components affect safety, performance, and usability of the overall system.\nExcellent communication, collaboration, and documentation skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools such as Cameo Systems Modeler or Enterprise Architect.\nBackground in biosensor, digital health, or IoT medical device development.\nExposure to design history file creation, regulatory submissions, and audits.\nExperience integrating cloud-based services with medical devices in compliance with security/privacy standards (HIPAA, GDPR).\nFamiliarity with design controls for consumer medical or multifunction devices.\nExperience with Human Factors Engineering (IEC 62366).\nExperience with project-management and agile tools (e.g., Jira).\nLearn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:www.abbottbenefits.com\nFollow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.\nConnect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal\n#software\nThe base pay for this position is\n$114,000.00 - $228,000.00In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.\nJOB FAMILY:\nProduct DevelopmentDIVISION:\nLNGO LingoLOCATION:\nUnited States > Alameda : 2901 Harbor Bay ParkwayADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:\nWORK SHIFT:\nStandardTRAVEL:\nYes, 5 % of the TimeMEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:\nNot ApplicableSIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:\nContinuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdfEEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf","description_format":"text","description_chars":6271,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":8,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Prescription Drugs","Cardiovascular Devices","Diabetes Devices","Neurotech & Neuromodulation"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-04T01:54:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":29,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-07T05:47:08Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":228000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/abbott-senior-systems-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/abbott-senior-systems-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-07T08:53:43Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6078,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-08T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2710},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2710"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fabbott-senior-systems-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fabbott-senior-systems-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fabbott-senior-systems-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/abbott-senior-systems-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fabbott-senior-systems-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3718858}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"abbott.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3718858},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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